Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

It's always good to be a trendsetter.

I am too big to copy anyone.

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.